“I took this picture on January 17 this year in Kibera, during the second day of demonstrations that Raila Odinga [Kenyan opposition leader] had called. It was an area where they were burning tires and the police responded by firing into the air and using tear gas.

The fighting, which had lasted several hours, began to become indiscriminate and the police started to act particularly violence, including tear gas into houses full of children. The police were divided into groups, and I followed one of them. My anger was growing slowly seeing how they acted.

I heard a child screaming “Daddy, Daddy!”. I looked, and there was the boy at the door of his house, with that look of fear and asking the police not to enter.

At that time I took three or four pictures, but I did not see exactly what I had until a while later. I saw it was a good picture showing the indiscriminate violence and terror in the face of a boy of eight years. We returned to the office to send it as quickly as possible.”